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Benalla gymnasts qualify for junior state titles

Benalla Gymnastics Club competed at the 2019 North East Regional Championships earlier this month, with members bringing home a number of fantastic results.

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Nagambie no match for fast finishing Dookie Thunder

In a heart-stopping clash at Dookie Recreation Reserve on Saturday, hometown heroes Dookie United combined for a strong second half to end Nagambie’s season in the preliminary final.

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Benalla’s Remi and Reese rise for championship success

Benalla basketball duo Remi Nicholas and Reese Gilbert have capped off a stellar season with North East Bushrangers, beating Altona 42-35 in the Victorian Junior Basketball League Grand Final at Werribee last weekend.

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First start of the season proves a winner for Schmidt

Benalla trainer Julie Schmidt took out the $35,000 Ladbrokes Manangatang Cup 12/10 over 975m with It’s Not There at Swan Hill on Friday — but didn’t see any of it, because she wasn’t there.

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Echuca ends Benalla’s premiership hopes in decider

After dominating the GVHA B Men’s trophy in the past, winning three in a row from 2012 to 2014 as well as the title in 2017 and 2018, reigning premier Benalla couldn’t claim a second hat-trick in its B Men’s grand final against Echuca on Saturday, defeated 6-2.

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Adelberg back to the drawing board after second place finish

After just missing out on a top three finish for MTX Best Trick in Minneapolis in August, Rob Adelberg has gotten himself back on the podium at the X Games in Norway, taking home a silver medal earlier this month.

Meg Saultry
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Junior football stars recognised

The Benalla and District Junior Football League’s 2019 season came to a recent close with its Under-16, Under-14 and Under-12 awards presentations, with several players recognised for their strong seasons.

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Benalla sign homecoming hero Pallpratt as 2020 coach

Benalla is getting the band back together, with premiership player Jake Pallpratt set to return to his hometown club after signing on for his first senior coaching role with the Saints.

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Benalla’s Sabotage and Frida Scarlo set to light up roller derby rink

Likely you’ve never heard the phrases hip whip or jammer or passing the star.

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Webster set for take-off at championships next week

Benalla’s Meaghan Webster is set to head off to Brisbane this weekend, after strong community support — as well as being backed in by the Benalla Young Sportsperson Trust — has seen the soccer star raise the funds required to compete interstate for the Team Vic 18 Years and Under Girls’ Soccer Squad at the School Sport Australia championships.

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Spills and thrills at Winton’s Superbikes

In a weekend of thrills, spills, rain and then some spectacular spills the Winton round of the Australian Superbikes had the major event of the day end early after three red flags.

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Boyle named best in the league

Being named joint winner of the McCormick Medal for the Best and Fairest player in the Under-16 Wangaratta and District Junior Football League competition might have come as a bit of a surprise for Benalla’s Lachy Boyle earlier this month, but it was ultimately an achievement two years in the making for the young midfielder.

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Price set to lead Violet Town into 2020

Joel Price credits a move closer to home as the main reason behind his recent appointment as Violet Town’s newest senior coach.

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Owain and Connor set to represent Benalla at Jamboree

Two Benalla basketball players, Owain Boyle and Connor Breheny, will this month head to Echuca for the 2019 Jamboree to train alongside some of the best under-12 players in the state.

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Tungamah Primary School crowned Champions at Goorambat and District sport carnival

On what turned out to be a wonderful sun-soaked winter’s day at Churchill Reserve, Benalla, students from Longwood, Dookie, Broken Creek, Tungamah, Devenish, Currawa and Australian Christian College Primary Schools converged to take part in the 86th annual Goorambat and District Schools Sports Association Athletics Carnival.

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Towners’ McCarty and Warnock take out Best and Fairest awards

Violet Town Football Netball Club held its Best and Fairest vote count late last month following the end of its home and away season.

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Benalla’s Lamont to lead Moorooopna in GVL in 2020

When Benalla Saints play Mooroopna in the Goulburn Valley League in 2020, there will be a hometown connection on the opposition’s bench, with Benalla’s John Lamont recently announced as Mooroopna’s senior coach for the new year.  

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Young Benalla Demons best in the state

Benalla Gymnastics Club competed at the TeamGym Victorian Championships on Sunday, with the Benalla Demons Level 2 Over-13 years team proving it is the best in the state after taking out the title of “2019 Victorian Champion”.

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KDFNL banishes Ardmona

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